An Idaho middle school science teacher who reportedly fed a sick puppy to a snapping turtle in front of his students remained the subject of a police investigation Tuesday. The reported incident in Robert Crosland’s classroom allegedly happened after school hours on March 7 at Preston Junior High School, located roughly 300 miles east of Boise. “Preston School District was made aware of a regrettable circumstance involving some of the biological specimens at Preston Jr. High,” the district said in a statement. “We emphasize that at no time was the safety of students or staff compromised.”

Comments:FTA: "As of Tuesday, Crosland has not been charged or placed on leave."

My child would be pulled from that school immediately. This is the sort of thing psychopaths do, but to do this in front of children takes it to a whole new level.

All jokes aside but whether it was a "sick puppy´ or a kitten or a snake or whatever being fed to the snapping turtle. What exactly is being taught to these children by this event? That predators eat? Poor or even non science dressed up as education serves no purpose.

As #1 intimates, while in the natural world, a sentient vertebrate being torn apart and eaten by a reptile may be ´natural´, in our genteel human world, such cruelty has no place, whether its a rat, a cat, or a puppy that suffers. Our family has kept pet tame rats - which are more affectionate than cats, and cleaner than dogs - for more than a decade. It disturbs us that people feed these sweet creatures to snakes as much as it disturbs most people that this turtle was fed a puppy.

That´s right folks!Food comes from a grocery store, not nature.Those millions of mice, voles, gophers, moles etc... that are shredded by tills every year don´t do it for the vegetables you eat. Everyone know that corn doesn´t grow in a can or frozen bag the way it magically appears on the shelf.

You may feel morally superior because you hire people to kill small animals rather than doing it yourself, but in truth you have things backward.

Let me tell you why: Because horror has its own reward. When you do such horror in front of children, you destroy their childhood. You are prepping them for stronger doses of reality, such as sex education, why little Johnny wears dresses, what a sex change operation involves, why Suzie has two mommies.- etc.

This kind of horror was shown to future Nazi Concentration camp guards- Yes! SS children were taken into training, by giving them a German shepherd puppy to raise and train. Impressionable 12 and 13 year old boys! Over a year they trained and nurtured the dog, entered it into contests, trained with it, it sleeping next to their beds at night, standing guard with them. Then on graduation, one by one they were called in to an interview, given a pistol with one bullet and told to shoot the dog. Those that hesitated were graded less than the ones who instantly pulled the trigger, killing the dog. Those who refused, an assistant shot the dog anyway and the boy was relegated to the army. Those who passed the test were given their coveted SS tattoos!

I realize this "teacher´s" displayed cruelty does not come close to that horror above- but it´s a start exactly toward the same kind of result

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